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Ep 216 How to Build Confidence in Kids: The Summer Review Conversation
Summer is full of growth for kids—but how often do we actually stop and help them notice it? In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares one of her favorite coaching tools: the Summer Review Conversation. It’s a simple reflection exercise that helps kids recognize how they’ve grown, identify the skills they used to navigate challenges, and carry that confidence with them into whatever comes next. Kids are constantly developing emotional, social, and mental skills, but u...
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Aug. 20, 2026
Ep 216 How to Build Confidence in Kids: The Summer Review Conversation
Summer is full of growth for kids—but how often do we actually stop and help them notice it? In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares one of her favorite coaching tools: the Summer Review Conversation. It’s a simple reflection exercise that helps kids recognize how they’ve grown, identify the skills they used to navigate challenges, and carry that confidence with them into whatever comes next. Kids are constantly developing emotional, social, and mental skills, but u...
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Aug. 17, 2026
Ep 215: 3 Tools to Ease Back-to-School Anxiety and Build Kids’ Confidence
Back-to-school season can bring plenty of excitement—but for many kids, it also brings worry, uncertainty, and those familiar nervous butterflies. In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares three practical tools parents can use to help kids navigate back-to-school anxiety with more calm and confidence. You’ll learn why a child’s nervousness about a new teacher, classroom, schedule, friendships, or school is often a completely normal nervous-system response to uncertaint
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April 25, 2026
Ep 214: Building Resilience Early with Dr. Kate Lund
What if resilience wasn't something you scrambled for in a crisis, but something already woven into the fabric of your family's everyday life? That's the big idea behind this conversation with Dr. Kate Lund, licensed clinical psychologist, resilience expert, and author of Bounce: Help Your Child Build Resilience and Thrive in School, Sports and Life. Dr. Kate brings over two decades of clinical experience, specialized training from three Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals, and a pers...
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April 9, 2026
Ep 213: Why Self-Awareness is the Most Underrated Skill for Kids
This week Lindsay is back with a solo episode, and it's a good one. She's making the case for self-awareness as the single most foundational skill we can give our kids — and unpacking why so many families accidentally skip it entirely. Spoiler: it's not because they don't care. It's because we've been taught to associate self-awareness with selfishness. And that association, Lindsay argues, is completely backwards. What We Cover Why self-awareness is the foundation of emotional intelligence,...
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April 2, 2026
Episode 212 Raising Resilient Teens: Confidence, Self-Worth & Emotional Fluency
Your teenager came to you upset. You said "go sort yourself out." Here's what they actually needed. In this episode, Lindsay sits down with Laura Ollinger — teen and parent wellbeing coach, speaker and mom of FOUR teenagers (yes, all at once) — for a conversation that is equal parts real talk and practical gold. Laura shares how a personal tragedy and her daughter's anxiety brought her back to school in her 40s, and why she built a coaching practice that works with both kids AND parents — bec...
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March 26, 2026
Ep 211: Why Your Child Falls Apart at Home (And What It Actually Means)
If your child is an angel at school and a hurricane at home, today's episode is for you. Lindsay introduces the "emotion beach ball" — a simple concept that completely re-frames why regulated kids often struggle most with the people they love. This one is for every parent who has quietly wondered if they're doing something wrong. Resources mentioned: The Stress Nanny Untangling Stress Questionnairethestressnanny.comKey themes: Lindsay Miller is a distinguished kids mindfulness coach, mi...
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